The Walsall Chronicle
Match20 Feb 2027
Still nobody has beaten Walsall
The unbeaten run reaches 12. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Aden Flint keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Walsall may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Match20 Feb 2027
Walsall make home a hard place to visit
12 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
Player ratings22 Feb 2027
Nobody could get near Vincent Harper
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match20 Feb 2027
The wait goes on for Walsall
4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Match20 Feb 2027
The goals have deserted Walsall
4 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Walsall can tell you which week it ends in.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Daniel Kanu in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Walsall this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Jake Hollman falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Market22 Feb 2027
Walsall sign Jacob Bailey, one for the future
Jacob Bailey is 15, and Walsall have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
In brief
- Market Walsall buy the years ahead of Joshua Bailey
- Market Walsall buy the years ahead of Matthew Watson
- Market Walsall buy the years ahead of Adam Johnson